A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell
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A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell
Top: the cover art of This Movie Doesn't End the Way We Want by Hailey Piper, art by Julia Lloyd, coming from Titan Books on September 15th. Text besides it: in 1994, three girls go to the movies. Only one comes out. 30 years later, the movie isn't done with her. Bottom: the cover art of She Isn't Herself Tonight by Hailey Piper, art by Caroline Johnson, coming from Saga Press on October 27th. Text besides it: alien abductions, a break-up from hell, and what you become when your worst enemy is yourself.
My 17th and 18th books will release this year π€
One novel to make you shudder and one novel to make you cry, and both up for pre-order nowβthat's how we roll around here, bay-bee π
It's going to be a wild year of horror fiction.
Screengrab of upper half of the American library phone app Libby. Shows a smiling head icon that represents Libby. A text box has white text in it: Okay, you're signed in! Here is your library card! Under the text box is a green and purple digital image of a rectangular library card. Image has been cropped so the owner and card number is not there.
Screengrab of the American library phone app Libby displaying a screen filled with ebooks and audiobooks that are on hold. Upper left in text is the word "Holds". Under that are two categories with number of holds: books 1 audiobooks 4. The rest of the image shows the cover of each item on hold: Kaliane Bradley, the ministry of time. Christopher Huang, unnatural ends. John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Samantha Shannon, The Bone Season. Each item has text next it indicating a status - whether the hold is suspended, a button for managing holds, a button to read or play a sample, and the date the hold was placed.
Screengrab of the American library phone app Libby displaying a screen filled with ebooks and audiobooks that are on loan to the app user right now. Upper left in text is the word "Loans". Under that are two categories with number of holds: books 1 audiobooks 2. The rest of the image shows the cover of each item currently on loan: Perilous Times, Thomas D Lee. A Tempest of Tea, Hafsah Faizal. A Letter to the Luminous Deep, Sylvie Cathrall. Each item has text next in a vertical row next to it: "Read" or "Open audiobook", a button for managing loans, and the due date when the item will be returned (removed from the app). At bottom there is a row of menu symbols for various options but no text to go with them. There is also a bar indicating the current audiobook that is being listened to: A Tempest of Tea, with a play/pause button next to it.
US peeps: Use the U.S. library system's FREE Libby app @libbyapp.com to check out #ebooks and #audiobooks you can access through your phone. Makes a commute to work or anywhere more fun. No need to go to your local branch; Libby will set you up w/a library acct based on your mapped location.
A thing worth talking about re:the Detroit synagogue attack in which security shot the attacker is that private security for synagogues is often off duty police officers moonlighting.
Which presents a whole secondary level of danger to Jews and is often something congregations wrestle deeply with
Cheese wizards with reg regrets
Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.
if somebody is taking medical advice from ChatGPT and shoving garlic up their bum then yes actually they deserve what they get and The Rule still applies
Oh no! Pebbles! Everything crossed for all of you!
Remember.
If you don't know which person in your friend group is possessed by an ancient and nameless cosmic horror brimming with unspeakable hungers and malice, it's probably you.
Hey everyone, as you may or may not know, I have a book coming out in June.
Kirkus gave it a really good review, AND itβs going to be in the April print edition! My publisher tells me this is a big deal since they only feature a small number of indies in the print edition, so I am excite!
About half the tickets are gone for this, come sign up! As always, itβs free. β€οΈ
oh. maybe that's it's standard price? derp. sorry.
@cemurphy.bsky.social Catie, did you know that Wintergate is currently Β£2.99 on Amazon UK?
www.amazon.co.uk/Wintergate-B...
Who else out there has a completed fantasy series they want to post a picture of? Send me what you've got so I can share them with the world!
AGENT ZERO is $2.99USD (and CAD) in ebook until 3/23.
The first Viral Agent! AGENT ZERO is $2.99USD (and CAD) in ebook until 3/23.
books2read.com/agentzero
i've just finished inhaling Enchanting the Fae Queen, and i LOVED it! Lorelei is so different to Saskia, and yet the three queens balance each other so well - as political *and* personal allies.
i loved that Lorelei got some answers and a HEA! so looking forward to book 3!! π
"Another One Bites the Dust" was used in a study to train medical professionals to provide the correct number of chest compressions per minute while performing CPR. The bassline has close to 110 beats per minute, and 100β120 chest compressions per minute are recommended by the British Heart Foundation, and endorsed by the Resuscitation Council (UK). A study evaluating CPR chest compression rates in veterinarians and registered veterinary nurses found that Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" helped improve the accuracy of compression rates. When used as an auditory aid, the song resulted in a significantly higher number of participants achieving the correct rate of 100β120 compressions per minute, outperforming other aids like the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive". However, the content of the lyrics was not considered "quite as appropriate".
I am only being mildly productive, but I also found a very funny fact to share with all of you
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another...
Moonstone sterling silver astronaut studs.
I know I have space nerds out there and you are in good company so I am excited to tell you that my moonstone sterling silver astronaut studs have arrived.
A guy rammed his car through a door at Detroitβs largest synagogue and got out with a gun and was shot by security before he could massacre everyone inside.
And yes all synagogues that can afford it have security. And yes itβs exactly because of situations like this that they do.
I HAVE... NEVER HAD A KEBAB.
"Oh really?" Vetinari asked. "Well then this will be an opportunity for us both. But where will we find one?"
If you'd asked Vetinari if a skull could smile before this conversation, he'd have said "no." Now he wasn't so sure
THAT IS DEFINTIELY A SUSAN QUESTION
15/17
It was hard to say how long the silence lasted this time.
There is, in fact, a god of awkward pauses. There are just very few temples to her on the Disk due to her habit of showing up to divine interventions late.
She briefly thought about showing up here, but decided to stay well clear.
8/17
EVERY SINGLE PART of a lily is toxic!
Petals, leaves, pollen, the water in the vase.
You can celebrate someone other ways besides killing their cat.
I worked as a vet tech for 10 years. Let me assure you, you don't want to see your cat go through this nightmare.
*Old guy shuffles onto stage*
I have a twitch channel nowβlike, just nowβin anticipation of a livestream with audiobook narrator Luke Daniels next Tuesday. So if youβd like to follow, Iβll do occasional event thingies there with a guest: www.twitch.tv/kevinhearne
Morning check list:
Clothed? Sufficiently.
Keys? Yup... just found em.
Coffee cup? Full.
Sanity? Sanity??
...and, we have a runner.
If you love games with strategic resource gathering, then Prosper with Dragons is for you!
Support indie games with your preorder! We're aiming for 100 preorders this month, and we've got a deck with your name on it. π₯°π
Order at Sistah Scifi: sistahscifi.com/products/pre...
Tyme spent wyth a catte ys nevir a mistake.
KNIGHT: lady of the lake, i return the blade excalibur to you (throws sword)
LADY OF THE LAKE: (sword through her head) what the fuck just place it in the lake like a normal person
TIL about Jianzi which is a game played by kicking a shuttlecock! youtu.be/ZbSc_p_DWi4?...
Wante to explore textes yn Middel Englisshe? Heere are excellent free onlyne ediciouns of medieval workes yn Middle Englisshe, wyth notes and glosses to assist readeres. Thys ys the best thynge evir.
metseditions.org/editions
Your daily fortune:
Today you will fight self doubt and win. Later, you may curse the sky and daydream about potatoes.